The Palestinian Authority has announced that it will no longer be able to provide cash payments to the families of suicide bombers. What an odd coincidence that the PA should suddenly be facing cashflow problems after Donald Trump shut down a shadowy, unaccountable government agency!
After Elon Musk’s DOGE team uncovered massive amounts of fraud at the US Agency for International Development (USAID), President Trump suspended the agency, fired more than 13,000 employees, and put what was left of it under the control of Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
Wait until you see some of the ripple effects this shutdown caused around the world!
Around 35,000 people abruptly lost their jobs in Jordan after USAID’s payments to NGOs around the world were shuttered. The workers were all employees at welfare agencies in Jordan. They hand out cash welfare payments to cover medical and mental health expenses in Jordan. They also give welfare payments to people with disabilities and refugees. In Jordan.
In case there’s any confusion, we’re not talking about the small unincorporated community of Jordan, Texas. We’re talking about the country of Jordan that’s on the other side of the planet. It’s right next to Israel, in case any American taxpayers want to look it up on a map.
Based on the average wage in Jordan, this means we were paying the SALARIES of these 35,000 foreign workers in a foreign country, to the tune of almost $30 million per month.
That doesn’t include whatever all the welfare payments cost. That’s just for the salaries of the people processing and handing out the welfare checks. The salaries come to a total of about $360 million per year, give or take a few bucks.
Also, the USAID money is separate from the $1.6 billion in foreign aid that Joe Biden sent to Jordan in 2024. Which brings Jordan’s total annual cash haul to nearly $2 billion. Jordan has 70 billion tons of oil reserves (estimated) and is the world’s richest source of phosphate exports from their mining industry. But they were getting almost $2 billion a year from the American taxpayers, with USAID’s $360 million flying completely under the radar until now.
Imagine how many homes we could have rebuilt in North Carolina, Tennessee, and Georgia after Hurricane Helene with that money. If you’re not offended enough yet, just remember that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris bragged about giving people who lost their homes in that hurricane a check for $700.
Let’s switch countries. Have you ever heard of the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC)? Neither had we.
It’s allegedly one of the largest relief agencies in the world. It provides cash welfare payments to hundreds of thousands of refugees in 40 countries around the world. That’s awfully nice of Norway. We didn’t realize that the Norwegian government was so generous to so many countries that are dealing with an influx of refugees.
Guess who’s paying for all that largesse? Not the Norwegian taxpayers!
It seems logical that the Norwegian taxpayers would be financing the Norwegian Refugee Council since it has “Norwegian” right there in its name. A better name for it might be the “American SUCKERS Refugee Council,” since the American taxpayers apparently foot the entire bill for this Norwegian welfare agency.
After USAID’s payments were shut off, the NRC announced that it had been forced to cut welfare payments to hundreds of thousands of refugees in more than 20 countries. They might have to shut down welfare payments in all 40 countries they serve if Marco Rubio doesn’t turn the money spigot back on.
Your tax dollars at work!
In the UK, Reform Party leader Nigel Farage is praising President Trump for shutting down USAID. He notes that the shutdown means “US taxpayer money will no longer poison British society.”
What does he mean by that?
Joe Biden was providing sacks of American cash to the UK (a country that doesn’t need American foreign aid at all). He sent $25,000 of your tax dollars to provide free legal services for transgender refugees seeking asylum in the UK. About $35,000 was given to a university in Ohio so its art students could stage exhibits all across the UK about how the COVID pandemic affected gay and transgender people.
Another $20,000 sponsored a series of gay Pride concerts in the UK. The list goes on and on. It all comes to an end right now.
Why were our tax dollars paying the salaries of so many people in foreign countries that many Americans wouldn’t be able to quickly find on a map? A better question might be, why didn’t anyone in the federal government blow the whistle on all this fraud, waste, and abuse much sooner?
